[CS-FSLUG] GNU believers

[Eduardo Sanchez]

On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:09, Leon Brooks wrote:
[snip] 
> The GPL isn't universally ideal, and many projects (Apache, PostFix, 
> BIND, PostgreSQL) get along fine without it. Even RMS, who is 
> personally difficult to deal with, has on at least one occasion 
blessed 
> a decision to use a BSD licence instead.

That was, IIRC, the use of BSD licensing for the vorbis codec.

> However, a backbone of GPLed  
> software (Linux, KDE, The GIMP) is vital for keeping the, er, 
> fatherless honest, because said fatherless will be with us until Jesus 
> returns. We do live in a fallen world, no? Part of our basic theology?
> 

I couldn't have said it better. Three cheers for Leon!

Eduardo

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Prof. Eduardo Sanchez
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